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Risky or Not?

Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman

Risky or Not is a short podcast from Professor Ben Chapman from North Carolina State University, and Dr. Don Schaffner from Rutgers University. Dr. Don and Professor Chapman promise to do their best not to waffle, dither, dissemble or equivocate, and to give straight up answers about whether something is risky or not.

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18:42

758. Reusing Plastic Drinking Water Jugs Without Washing

Risky or Not? ·

2025/04/14

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from reusing plastic drinking water jugs without washing. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Gregory Koch: “Me wearing my #RiskyOrNot no waffles shirt for Passover. @bugcounter.bsky.social @benjaminchapman.bsky.social” — Bluesky Quantifying the Influence of Relative Humidity, Temperature, and Diluent on the Survival and Growth of Enterobacter aerogenes - ScienceDirect Draft Genome Sequence for Klebsiella michiganensis B199A,

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22:52

757. Rusty Can Opener

Risky or Not? ·

2025/04/11

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using a rusty can opener. Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat? Rusty Linux: Advances in Rust for Linux Kernel Development | Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement A microbial survey of food service can openers, food and beverage can tops and cleaning methodology effectiveness - Michaels - 2003 - Food Service Technology - Wiley Online Library The hygiene of slicing machines, carving

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11:39

756. Apples Bitten by Stink Bugs

Risky or Not? ·

2025/04/09

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating an apple bitten by stink bugs. Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat? Dark, dented spots on apple? Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on Fresh-Cut Apple Tissue and Its Potential for Transmission by Fruit Flies | Applied and Environmental Microbiology 707. Eating Fruit That’s Been Bitten by a Bat — Risky or Not? Brown Marmorated Stink Bug | US EPA

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26:11

755. Reusable Straws

Risky or Not? ·

2025/04/07

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using re-usable straws. Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat? 475. Bamboo Straw Used for Smoothies Without a Brush for Cleaning — Risky or Not? Food Safety Talk 33: Fresh Produce Punk Rock Hippieness — Food Safety Talk View of Do reusables pose greater infectious risks than disposables for consumer goods? A systematic literature review Guidance Document for the Safe Reuse of Containers |

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21:07

754. Reusing a Hot Chocolate Milk Spoon

Risky or Not? ·

2025/04/04

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from reusing a hot chocolate milk spoon. Keywords: Milk, Chocolate, Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat? Time to B. cereus about hot chocolate - PMC Estimation of human dose of staphylococcal enterotoxin A from a large outbreak of staphylococcal food poisoning involving chocolate milk - ScienceDirect Understanding and Controlling Microbiological Contamination of

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11:05

753. Re-Heating Leftovers Indefinitely and the...

Risky or Not? ·

2025/04/02

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of re-heating leftovers indefinitely and the lasagna of Theseus. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Life Kit : NPR Theseus - Wikipedia Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia Tyndallization - Wikipedia How long do leftovers last? And other food safety questions, answered : Life Kit : NPR

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08:54

752. Frozen Sliced Liver From the Last Century

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/31

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating frozen sliced liver from the last century. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 I found this sliced liver from Safeways in my… - Military Aircraft | Facebook FSIS Chicken Liver Guidance Campylobacter spp. in New Zealand raw sheep liver and human campylobacteriosis cases - PubMed Forcemeat - Wikipedia

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15:19

751. Leaving Green Juice in the Car Overnight in the...

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/28

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from consuming Green Juice left in the car overnight in the winter. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Green Goodness® - Bolthouse Farms FAQs - Bolthouse Farms Botulism Associated with Commercial Carrot Juice — Georgia and Florida, September 2006 100% Carrot - Bolthouse Farms

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13:48

750. Corned Beef Left Out for a Couple of Hours

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/26

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating corned beef left out for a couple of hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 What is the term for a 750th anniversary in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings Tony Hawk - Wikipedia LUCKY CHARMS - 60s 70s 80s 90s Commercials Compilation - YouTube Corned beef - Wikipedia No such thing as ‘uncured’ corned beef, Penn State meat expert says | Penn State University Curing (food preservation) - Wikipedia

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13:09

749. Two Week Old Cookie Style Lemon Bars

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/24

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating two week old cookie style lemon bars. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Easy Lemon Bar Cookies - Cambrea Bakes Recipes - Texas Cottage Food Law

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10:51

748. Butter That a Mouse Churned

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/21

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating butter that a mouse churned. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Richard Gere and the Gerbil | Snopes.com Two Little Mice Fell Into a Bucket of Cream Lesson Is it true that if you shake the creamer cups you get with coffee enough, they turn into butter? : r/NoStupidQuestions Fecal Shedding of Zoonotic Food-Borne Pathogens by Wild Rodents in a Major Agricultural Region of the Central California Coast - PMC SNL50: Beyond Saturday

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16:08

747. Cooking in an Oven With Mouse Droppings

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/19

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cooking in an oven with mouse droppings. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Mickey Mouse heads to the public domain HAPPY DAYS - “Fonzie Moves in Over the Cunninghams Garage” - The Fonz - YouTube Hantavirus Disease Hantavirus: What is disease that killed Gene Hackman’s wife? Reported Cases of Hantavirus Disease | Hantavirus | CDC Applications of heat: Hantavirus

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08:13

746. Homemade Nut Butter Containing Honey

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/17

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating homemade nut butter containing honey. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Contamination of Nuts/Nut Butters | Food Safety Water Activity (aw) in Foods | FDA Water content, water activity, water structure and the stability of foodstuffs - ScienceDirect Influence of Water Activity on Foodborne Bacteria — A Review - ScienceDirect Water activity - Wikipedia T. Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On) (Official Vinyl Video) -

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11:54

745. Reusing Pasta Water That's Been Sitting Out...

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/14

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks reusing pasta water that’s been sitting out overnight. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ NACCHO Bacillus sp. R2 α-amylase production optimization: Pasta cooking water as medium of amylase production | African Journal of Biotechnology Fatal Family Outbreak of Bacillus cereus-Associated Food Poisoning - PMC Predictive Model for Growth of Bacillus cereus at Temperatures Applicable to Cooling of Cooked Pasta - Juneja - 2019 - Journal of Food

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10:00

744. Superb Owl Shrimp That's Been Out of...

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/12

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating Superb Owl shrimp that’s been out of temperature, refrigerated and reheated. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Watch the Football! ⚽ | That Mitchell and Webb Look - BBC - YouTube 2025 Super Bowl LIX Sunday - When, Where & More - NFL.com A comprehensive review of the spoilage of shrimp and advances in various indicators/sensors for shrimp spoilage monitoring - ScienceDirect FoodKeeper App | FoodSafety.gov Food Lion

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11:57

743. Kissing a Raven

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/10

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from kissing a raven. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Ragnar raven in a lovely chatty and affectionate mood. | Raven Talking | TikTok Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things Lyrics | Genius Lyrics Elton John - Rocket Man (Official Music Video) - YouTube Salmonella ravens - Google Scholar Salmonella in Sheep in Iceland - PMC Prevalence, Characterization and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella Isolates in Large Corvid Species of Europe and North

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13:04

742. Stirring Your Coffee With "Pickle" the Barista...

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/07

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of letting a parrot stir you coffee with a spoon every day. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Pickle the barista birb loves to stir my coffee every morning : r/aww Salmonella | Cornell Wildlife Health Lab Psittacosis (Ornithosis) fact sheet Human Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Salmonella Typhimurium Epidemic in Wild Songbirds, United States, 2020–2021 - Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

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12:56

741. Using a Dishwasher to Wash a Bird Feeder

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/05

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using a dishwasher to wash a bird feeder. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Infectious Diseases of Garden Birds - Minimising the Risks - UFAW Outdoor Cleaning Products | Jeyes Fluid Method to Evaluate Factors Influencing the Microbial Reduction in Domestic Dishwashers | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic Jeyes Fluid - Wikipedia John Jeyes - Wikipedia p-Chlorocresol - Wikipedia

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15:29

740. Using a "Snot Sucker" With Ones Mouth

Risky or Not? ·

2025/03/03

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by using a “snot sucker” with ones mouth. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ NoseFrida the SnotSucker – Frida | The fuss stops here. NoseFrida: Winter Colds and Baby’s Snot: A Better Way to Clear It Out • ItsaBelly Doulas Amazon.com : BABY-VAC Clinically Tested Baby Nasal Aspirator - Vacuum-Powered Nose Sucker with Suction Head & Cleaning Brush for Safe and Gentle Relief : Baby Bathing Products : Baby Comparing nasal suction devices

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12:53

739. Nugget Shoes

Risky or Not? ·

2025/02/28

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a toddler placing chicken nuggets in their shoes. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 SJ 🥥🌴💙 (@sjmcgriff)’s video of Kids TikTok Videos | TikTok Pitted keratolysis: an infective cause of foot odour - PMC Why Do Feet Stink? (for Kids) | Nemours KidsHealth

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